different between voices vs chatter
voices
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v??s?z/
Noun
voices
- plural of voice
Verb
voices
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of voice
Anagrams
- Vescio, vesico-
voices From the web:
chatter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?æt?/
- (US) enPR: ch?t??r, IPA(key): /?t?æt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English chateren, from earlier cheteren, chiteren (“to twitter, chatter, jabber”), of imitative origin. Compare Dutch schateren (“chatter”), schetteren, Dutch koeteren (“jabber”), dialectal German kaudern (“to gobble (like a turkey)”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter, chirp”).
Noun
chatter (usually uncountable, plural chatters)
- Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
- Synonyms: chattering, chatting, nattering; see also Thesaurus:chatter
- The sound of talking.
- The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
- The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
- 2016, Cornelia F. Mutel, A Sugar Creek Chronicle (page 41)
- The wind rose as the earth darkened, so that fading chatters of woodland animals were countered by the strengthening sounds of waving trees […]
- 2016, Cornelia F. Mutel, A Sugar Creek Chronicle (page 41)
- An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
- (uncountable) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
- (uncountable) The situation where a drill or similar tool vibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
Translations
Verb
chatter (third-person singular simple present chatters, present participle chattering, simple past and past participle chattered)
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- Synonyms: chat, natter
- (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
- Synonyms: clatter, knock, (said of an engine) pink
- To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
- The jay makes answer, as the magpie chatters with delight.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
Translations
Etymology 2
chat +? -er
Noun
chatter (plural chatters)
- One who chats.
- (Internet) A user of chat rooms.
Further reading
- chatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- chatter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- chatter at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ratchet, traceth
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